THE Tembari Children's Care (TCC) Inc is a day care facility at ATS Oro Settlement, 7-Mile, outside of Port Moresby, PNG. To date, it takes care of more than 200 former street children - orphans, abandoned and the unfortunate - by serving them meals twice a day, and providing them early education. Assistance - food and money - is sent by supporters who find merit in the services we provide to these children. At The Center, they are family. For all of these, we need support that is sustainable.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Appeal for power credit donation towards Tembari’s Esipay meter

The Tembari's Esipay meter number 07 0709 5013 9. Donation of power credit is welcomed.

By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ

A Friend of Tembari Children

WE RECENTLY installed an Esipay meter at The Center.

This means electricity would now be a part of our cost.

Since electricity is one of the most basic items in our lives, after water, we can’t just afford not to really have it and use it sustainably to be able to provide better service to our beneficiary children, now numbering more than 170.

The center, founded in 2003, is having power in its premises for the first time. It was first connected to the power grid at the settlement last April.

Initially, we have estimated that The Center would be consuming at least K50 a month once some basic white goods like refrigerator and freezer become available.

We need these items to improve the storage of our perishable foodstuff that some donors would be sending once in a while. The freezer also would enable us to make ice to chill the cordial drink of the children that goes with their daily meals – noon snacks and early dinner. Of course, the kids would enjoy drinking their water chilled.

We will also have other power-generated facilities like bulbs, computer, printer, DVD player and the matching TV screen.

The DVD player and the TV screen would enable us to introduce our children to various educational programming, something that would greatly enhance their learning process. With this, we would welcome a donation of this type of DVD programs.

I decided to post the picture of The Center’s Esipay as one way to solicit support from readers of this blog.

Maybe, you could help us defray the cost of our electric consumption by buying for Tembari power credits from Esipay outlets (when you are shopping at Boroko Foodworld or RH Hypermart or at Stop n Shop).

The Tembari Esipay meter number is 07 0709 50139 under the name of Tembari Children’s Care (TCC). A K10 credit would go a long way. Esipay load higher than that would be much better as it would ensure us of continuous use of our electrical facilities.

All you have to do is text to me the Esipay power credit you purchased, after which I would forward it to the administrator of The Center. My cell phone number is 722-31984.

Likewise, if you feel you have something to donate to the Tembari children, please don’t hesitate to email me, or call me on my cell phone, or my landline number 3246-712 at my workplace at The National newspaper.

THE BLOGGER

ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ, A Friend of Tembari Children. Blogger APH came to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in 1993 to join The National newspaper as one of its pioneering journalists. Working as Executive Sub Editor, he has remained with the daily, now the country’s No. 1 newspaper, up to these days. He has been a journalist since his university days in Manila back in the late 60s. APH’s involvement with the Tembari children began in January 2010 after he discovered them at a Christmas party for the city’s 500 unfortunate children held at the Botanical Garden in Port Moresby. That day, he was chasing a story for The National, which happened to be that of the unfortunate children in the city. His self-appointed job for Tembari children composed of orphaned, abandoned, neglected and unfortunate children is to look for people and groups who could provide them food, money, health services and facilities necessary to create positive changes in their lives. This job is difficult, but what the heck …!

(Our sponsored Saturday lunch for the 200 Tembari kids costs only K250.00 per sponsor (we usually have two), which covers a special meat (fish or chicken) dish, veggies, steamed rice and cordial drink. The Saturday lunch needs at least two sponsors. Some had given more, allowing us to give the kids a generous heap of the day’s lunch. A rare bonus to the sponsors, along with the bricks they earn each time, is that I personally cook the dish, giving it a personal touch. And as they earn a brick, each of our benefactors also earn a passage into the heart of the Tembari kids, which is also a prepaid ticket to Heaven.)